Icy refreshment

Hello again after quite some time - I've been spending the past weeks getting better... and worse... and better... dealing with insurances and other services. I'm exhausted and I find it hard to spend my energy on dealing with bureaucracy, when I'd need it literally everywhere else, but I guess there's no way around it. I certainly hope that I have calmer weeks ahead of me, and with the summer temperatures outside who knows, maybe I'll have tthe chance to peek out of my apartment for something other than doctor's appointments.

Matching the first major heatwave of the year, I prepared an icy refreshment for you: a lavender-flavoured popsicle. I'm not exactly sure why lavender, but it just seems fitting due to the purple blooms in the patterned paper. Matching our "Embossing" theme over at the Alphabet challenge blog, I used a white paper with swirls in the background. To add a bit more colour, I then added a layer of purple paper onto the kraft card base. For a bit of bling, I added a couple of shiny rhinestones. 

And since there's not much more to say about the card itself, I'll just finish with my observation of how well it matches my wild blueberry ice cream with vanilla cream. Which is of course to be eaten with the big spoon :) 

challenges: 

- 613 avenue create: ATG with optional twist "for the guys"

- a place to start: ATG

- allsorts challengeblog: ATG with optional twist "what makes you happy" (ice cream in summer)

- as you like it: add a sentiment or not (I'll usually go without a sentiment mainly because the majority of my projects is crafted for the purpose of crafting - meaning they will have no known recipient at the  time they're done. When it fits the layout of my card, I'll sometimes add a generic greeting that can be used for different people, but in general I believe that a real, personal sentiment will be the one inside the card. It doesn't need to jump at you the first moment you see the card - that's the task for the main motif, which without a sentiment gets more space to shine.)

- C.R.A.F.T.: cute/ATG

- CAS on Friday: summer

- crafty catz: ATG

- kreativtanten: favourite colour (purple)

- lil patch of crafty friends: ATG handmade

- lovethoseprettypapers: ATG patterned papers

- love to craft: ATG

- morgans artworld: ATG
- moving along with the times: birthday

- nachteulen: die cuts & punches (popsicle die cut)

- pennys papertake: ATG paper

- wortartwednesday: ATG